Ask Kate Anything: Season Five Finale

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How do you get through a terrible day? What should you not say to someone with cancer? What keeps you believing in God? We thought it might be fun to have you, dear listener, interview Kate for today’s episode. She offers gentle ideas for how to be a good friend to struggling loved ones, how she has found pockets of productivity in this dumpster fire of a year, and what she is hoping for in the New Year. Plus, she ends with a benediction for a year that didn’t turn out like we thought it should. For show notes, transcripts, and discussion questions: https://katebowler.com/podcasts/ask-kate-anything-season-five-finale/ Download a free Advent Devotional at https://katebowler.com/advent To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello my dears. When we launched this season of the podcast, we had no idea what was coming.
0:08.0	It was March and we thought it was only going to be a few weeks of chaos and isolation and fear.
0:14.4	But then we began to understand the scope of what pandemic meant, and it was far worse than we could
0:20.7	have guessed. This show was originally born out of my own experience of living in uncertainty.
0:26.6	After I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at 35, frankly, I was lonely. I could tell I was losing the
0:35.3	ability to feel like myself anymore and I just didn't know how to get it back. I began to wonder if
0:41.8	maybe I didn't have the words for it, and maybe that the right words might be something I could find
0:48.8	in other people's stories, and not just my own. The more I dug into other people's lives and
0:54.4	experiences, the more I gained a kind of freedom. I realized that I didn't need to be an expert on
1:01.2	having cancer. You didn't need my perspective or quick tips or my gratitude, but that we all
1:08.5	needed to learn to live here with this, without the illusion that everything was always going to be okay.
1:15.6	Not without fear, but with it beside it, just here. Which is the biggest thing that has brought
1:25.5	all of us together now, because now the whole world understands what it feels like to live with
1:32.0	chronic uncertainty. When people say we're all in this together, they should mean this. The life
1:40.1	is only something we can do together. I'm Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens.
1:50.3	It's probably obvious by now that the world loves us when we are good, better, best.
1:56.2	But this is a podcast for when you want to stop feeling like you're not living your best life now.
2:03.0	We're not always living the plotline of our favorite whole-mart Christmas movie.
2:06.6	Life is a chronic condition. The self-help and wellness industry will try to tell you that you can
2:14.9	always fix your life. Eat this and you won't get sick. Lose this weight and you'll never be lonely.
2:22.0	Believe with your whole heart and God will provide. Keep this attitude and the money is yours.
2:29.1	But I'm here to look into your gorgeous eyes and say, hey, there are some things you can fix
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